Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-08
EARLY HORSE LITERATURE.

EARLY HORSE LITERATURE.
The following are from volume -
of the Spirit of the Times
The trotting stallion Young Jackson.
by Andrew Jackson, out of a Mambrino
mare, is advertised on Long Island at
SD.
a pacing match at Buffalo was won by
Acorn QIenry Clay in , 30. Acorn was
six years old and l4-2.
Young Dread is advertised at Water
town, jefferson Co., n. Y; lG hands.
chestnut, 1850 lbs; trotS in $50: six
years old raised $50 miles below Quebec.
From account of state tair at Saratoga
we extract, page 375: "Black Hawk.
the famous Morgan horse. was there and
beat some competitor in Il trotting match
not very sharply contested-or at least
the time was slow. | was detained from
the match. did not see Black Hawk at
all, as he was very little in the show
ground. 1t was said by all with whom
conversed on the subject that he was in
feriOr in appearance to some of the other
animals of the same variety on the
ground particularly to a very dark chest
nut (almost black stallion. callel. | be-
lieve, Green Mountain Morgan. lie was
IL years Old and got by the old Clifford
Morgan, also on the ground. Thee were
also two other stations exhibited. got by
the same. The four bore a close family
resemblance both in appearance md ac-
ton. There is "A difference in opinion in
relation to these animals. but | willingly
plead guilty to II great admiration for
such perfect dociity. never saw united
in any other species. Not one of them was
over II hands high-scarcely tmt-but
when moving never saw so much maies-
ty embodied in horse flesh as was dis
played by Green Mountain Morgan. His
arched neck seemed ''clothed witt thun-
der" and his floating name, his eye of
fire, his red, distended nostril, his open
mouth with the rigid tendons about it
standing out in sharp relief, realized
more perfectly to my mind the originals
of those fiery and magnificent cOursers-
the Greek ideals of the war horse-to be
found on the Elgin marbles, that ever
saw elsewhere. | called Charles Elliot,
the painter, and had Green Mountain
Morgan put to his PAGES for his inspec-
ton. Without word from me he made
precisely the criticism | have already
done"
Volume Is of the Spirit QS4S) We find,
page III: "We understand Mr.. Blodg-
ett's Morgan mare which took the first
premium in the class out of the State,
was purchased by Mr.. Geo. a. Mason of
Jordan. He is one of the owners of the
Morgan horse, Gen. Clifford" This oc-
ours in report of State fair.
Daniel Webster by imp. Priam is adj
vertised at Simcoe, Canada.
Leopard was imported in 1917; at Odell,
Canada.
Vol. 10, page l3S, "Our Correspondent
says: sit is an established fact that
many of the fastest trotters now upon
the turf, as we'll in our own city as in
New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore,
were bred either in Massachusetts, New
Hampshire or Maine; the latter has prob
ably produced more celebrated trotting
horses than any State in the Union
among them can be named the Ice POney,
Fanny Pullen, Boston, Tom Thumb, Ed
win Forrest, Daniel ID. Tomkins and
Zach Taylor"
Page 400 of the same volume is account
of sales at the New York State fair. The
Morgan stallion Gen. Clifford was sold by
G. A. Mason to c. w. & NJ. ii. Ingersoll
of Lodi, Seneca'Co., for $1,000. Mr.. Ma
son afterward bought the Major Clifford
of MIR. Blodgett of Chelsea, VT. A fine
three-year-old filly of the same stock was
sold by Mr.. Wier for 5000. A superior
two-year-old colt by Black Hawk was
sold by ii. ii. Hall of Bridport, VT, to
David deuel. of Shelby, Orleans Co., n.
Y. This animal attracted much attention.
His dam was said to be cross of the
English blood horse, and the colt in
question showed the points of that stock
beautifully blended with those of the
Morgan derived from his famous sire.
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